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Heat-related deaths keep piling up in Texas even as candidates shy from climate
September 15, 2024
Texas A&M climate scientist suggests surging heat - and heat-related deaths - may finally deliver an 'oh shit' moment for a state riding on heat-generating fossil fuels.
American cities are getting unbearably hot. These ones are roasting the most.
August 13, 2024
Human-caused climate change is turbocharging heat all over the country, but it’s most intense in cities, where more than 260 million Americans live. Of the 10 cities that recorded the biggest increase since the mid-70s, seven are in Texas.
Texas needs money to keep the lights on during extreme weather. It’s funding more fossil fuel instead.
July 14, 2024
Rather than shuttling money into strengthening its grid to make sure the lights and A/C stay on during increasingly extreme weather, Texas is pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into new natural gas-fired power plants.
68 'Summer of Heat' Activists Arrested In NYC Protesting Citigroup's Fossil Fuel Financing
June 28, 2024
Scores of activists were arrested Friday during a protest outside Citigroup's New York City headquarters. "Citi's business model is frying our planet," said one campaigner.
The Climate Is the Economy
June 17, 2024
Intensifying hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are wreaking havoc across the country—and on all of our bank accounts.
Banks can't measure climate risk? I live it every day.
June 7, 2024
U.S. banking regulators are letting American families down badly by acknowledging that climate is a risk but refusing to do much about it, writes Roishetta Ozane, founder of the Vessel Project of Louisiana and Gulf fossil finance coordinator with the Texas Campaign for the Environment.
Texans Should Prepare For Hotter Temperatures, Greater Risk Of Fire And Flooding
April 30, 2024
A new climate report shows a dramatic rise in 100-degree days, while the dangers posed by hurricanes, droughts and other extreme weather conditions are growing.
Corpus Christi grapples with community debate over ocean desalination
March 30, 2024
A report to the Corpus Christi City Council laid out that water bills for residential customers could jump by more than 50% by 2030.
Fossil fuel protesters rally outside Houston's CERAWeek energy conference
March 19, 2024
Activists who traveled to Houston from along the industry-heavy Gulf Coast did not hold back.
Activists to Insurance Giants: 'End Your Support for Oil and Gas Now’
February 28, 2024
More than 100 frontline community members from Louisiana, Texas, and New York marched on the Manhattan offices of four insurance giants.
Why Biden’s pause on new LNG export terminals is a BFD
February 14, 2024
The long-simmering issue became a top news story when President Joe Biden announced he was hitting the pause button on permitting new LNG export terminals.
Biden’s LNG Exports Pause Leans on Broad Public Interest Statute
January 30, 2024
Developers of LNG facilities may find limited legal options to challenge the White House pause on exports.
TCE Leadership Recognizes New Staff Union
April 10, 2023
TCE Joint Statement
TCE leadership recognizes new staff union.
Energy company among environmental group’s ‘Terrible 12’ Gulf Coast polluters
March 8, 2023
Energy company among environmental group’s ‘Terrible 12’ Gulf Coast polluters.
Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville
October 18, 2022
Indigenous leaders in Texas target global banks to keep LNG export off of sacred land at the Port of Brownsville.